letting go
(after Montale)
Hugh Offor
(after Montale)
Hugh Offor
Then forget
give it to the dust
the dull wind
that curls in the space
between your hollow words
let tomorrow breathe
out
I am no more
than the tousle of grass
beneath the dying gust
of our time
This poem was originally published in Gnome Magazine IV.
Hugh Offor is a poet and editor. His fiction has been published by Cambridge University Press and was longlisted in the Fiction Factory Short Story Prize (2021), and his poetry has been published by The Opiate. He is a reader for CRAFT Literary.
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